One thing I'm very curious about JohnyWhy, after reading your plethora of reports in the forum here, it has me wondering whether or not you have ever done an md5sum check of any of the .iso files that you've downloaded?

Not asking sarcastically here - I'm really asking out of genuine curiosity because with all of these problems you've been experiencing across the board like this I'd be so much inclined to believe that you've somehow managed to get corrupted downloads. How each time? I'd love to know that myself! Corrosion of the copper in the ethernet connectors could be one possibility - I actually had this once! ( I have a special cleaning cloth for silver/gold rings which I used on the connectors and it worked a treat. )

If using wifi sometimes if the computer is placed between the broadcast unit and a microwave oven - this can actually cause enough disrruption of bytes for a bad md5sum on the .iso. ( One reason why I dislike wifi because of all the mitigating factors that can cause signal corruption and data loss. )

At any rate JohnyWhy, this is why it is always so very important to make sure to run an md5sum/checksum upon your .iso files and making sure the numbers agree before use.

Ie, crash recovery. But maybe crash recovery is not puppy's problem. I don't mean that sarcastically, maybe the puppy philosophy is that crashes are likely due to user error, and puppy is not trying to be THAT easy to use that it can recover from user error.

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which might mean:
a) TeamViewer and/or it's bundled wine are possibly tweaked by TeamViewer Inc. for improved compatibility with each other

b) This Teamviewer is possibly less likely to step on Puppy's installed Wine.

Jasper wrote:

it is more than likely your hardware is trashed.

my understanding is that one of puppy's goals is to work with older computers/outdated hardware. Older computer are arguably more likely to have dysfunction. So, i think it would be consistent with Puppy's goals to catch hardware dysfunction without crashing the OS, IMHO.

thanks all for feedback, i appreciate it.

note, i was asked to make my links real links, but i have found that doing so causes the entire post to be hidden. i've seen that for many months on this forum. So, i just tried again and was surprised it worked ok this time.

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my fix was to manually download jre-1.7u4-i586.pet and install it. slickpet was giving me jre 1.6, which would not help anyway-- the web app i'm using requires 1.7.

Would be helpful if the JRE in slickpet displayed its version number.

i found the slickpet download here:
/initrd/mnt/dev_save

which is the PARENT directory of my puppy frugal install. seems strange for puppy to save stuff outside of the puppy directory. On the other hand, it avoids overloading the PSF. Still, seems like it could run into space or permissions issues up there-- or what if frugal is the top-level dir of the partition? Probably the slickpet devs handle those possible scenarios.

Is there something about my config or partitions that causes slickpet to save outside of the puppy directory?
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Perhaps Slacko etc. could automatically repair all malfunctions and perhaps any dents as well, if 01micko or BarryK or playdayz or jemimah can only find the time

Nobody expects that. My netbook has received no more nor fewer knocks than the average portable computer. It does not have any dents, and afaik, it's usb ports are in working order.

That said, my understanding is that one of puppy's goals is to work with older computers/outdated hardware. Older computers are more likely to have hardware dysfunction. So, i think it would be consistent with Puppy's goals to catch hardware dysfunction without crashing the OS, IMHO.

One possible advantage of Chrome (in addition to the speed) is that Flashplayer is built-in so that the external Flashplayer is not needed. I believe that this has solved problems people have had with youtube in Lucid. There has been discussion I read that Adobe will discontinue the Linux version of Flashplayer after 11.2 except for companies that "partner" with Adobe, which I understand that Google is or will

This version is set up so that some options that report to Google are turned off: Under "The Wrench" -> Settings -> Show Advanced Settings -> Privacy one can turn off some options which *might* insure that info is not sent to Google and *might* improve the quickness of the browser.

Additionally, in /usr/bin/google-chrome the command line option --disable-metrics is *in some versions* of Chrome said to turn off the collection of info that would be sent to Google--thereby not sending info and again possibly speeding up the browser. I am not sure if this works in Chrome 19 but the option is present. The browser Iron claims to provide further privacy safeguards but does not include flashplayer.

Could be worth bringing up as a feature request, not sure how complex getting SlickPet to be able to recognise problems would be, however.

johnywhy wrote:

-How do I delete the broken download?

The download file for Pets on Slickpet is saved to /tmp/ (load the File icon from the desktop, go up one level by clicking the green arrow on the directory window toolbar and then bring up the /tmp/ directory).

SFS files (which I'm assuming your dodgy JRE download is) are saved to /mnt/home - the root directory of the drive or partition in which your save file is located.

johnywhy wrote:

-Shouldn't puppy restart it from halfway point?

Bear in mind that resuming downloads requires both the software and the hosting server to support that feature. Even now a good number of servers don't support resume. That said, it's an excellent potential feature request which could be very useful if it can be implemented.

Could be worth bringing up as a feature request, not sure how complex getting SlickPet to be able to recognise problems would be, however.

For hardware failures, I'm thinking lower-level, not just slickpet. For interrupted downloads, that's seems a common feature in various places (like firefox). I suppose, a matter of setting a flag someplace that says "download finished". If no flag present, slickpet knows it was interrupted.

Jades wrote:

The download file for Pets on Slickpet is saved to /tmp/.

SFS files are saved to /mnt/home

Which one? Confused.

Jades wrote:

a good number of servers don't support resume. That said, it's an excellent potential feature request which could be very useful.

For servers that do not support resume, then just start over. Currently, neither happens. Could this also be done in the Package Manager?

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